4 results for projects related to 'local-resources' |
Project Title: | Möðruvellir í Hórgárdal |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=23 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | Möðruvellir is located in Hörgárdal, Eyjafjörður, Northern Iceland. The site lies on open lowland pasture, to the north of the river Hörgá, some 13 kilometres north of the modern City of Akureyri. Möðruvellir is situated only a short distance from ...[More] |
Keywords: | Monastic site, long occupation, Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation- |
Project Title: | Myrkárdalur |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=22 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | The highland site at Myrkárdalur contains several ruins, and the early farm ruin is clearly visible: several rooms are connected through a central corridor, reminiscent of medieval houses from Greenland. A landslide in the 14th Century destroyed par...[More] |
Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation-processes |
Project Title: | Oddstaðir |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=21 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | The site of Oddstaðir farm ruins nowadays belong to the land owned by Öxnhóll farm, once a church farm. The 2009 Midden excavation yielded well preserved animal bones and was sampled for environmental analyses. Tephra analysis and C14 data may co...[More] |
Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation |
Project Title: | Skuggi |
Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=10 |
Country: | Iceland |
Description: | Skuggi is an upland small sized farming site in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður and may have been a tenant farm in the earlier Middle Ages, as part of the Staðartunga landholdings. Staðardunga is assumed to have been connected to the medieval monastery at M...[More] |
Keywords: | Hörgárdalur,local-resources,archaeofauna,environment,site-formation-processes |